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Re: [LUG] Etiquette was Re: And this is bad news...

 

On Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:14:58 +0100
Terry Hill wrote:

> I use email all over the place, at work, at friends houses, at home.
> Gmail is there, wherever there's an operating system with a browser
> of some sort bolted on.

GMail is handy in that respect, but no more so than any other
web-interfaced email client.  Indeed there are some aspects of the
GMail interface that I *really* dislike.

But then it doesn't really matter as I can always use IMAP with it and
use my email client of choice.

> As far as I can remember the only place I've ever been told off for
> top posting was in this user group, so I start typing at the bottom
> these days if I remember as it's the fair enough that you all want
> the same format.

As far as "top posting" is concerned - it can be annoying.  Especially
if the established etiquette is to bottom-post... but that, for me, is
mostly because it can get confusing when someone top-posts a reply and
then gets bottom-post replied to themselves.  The conversation bounces
from top to bottom to top again.  Very confusing and unnecessary.

Grant.

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